The evening sale that changed the game
The sales held by Christie’s during the evening on 19 November 2024—The Collection of Mica Ertegun and 20th Century Evening Sale—are...
top of page
Search
The incredible story behind a de Kooning theft
On November 29, 1985, the day after Thanksgiving, Willem de Kooning's Woman Ochre (estimated at the time at $400,000) was stolen from the...
113 views
The power of the Pinault collection on full display at Bourse de Commerce in Paris
The latest exhibition of the Pinault Collection opened its doors in Paris last month. Entitled Le monde comme il va after the eponymous...
92 views
Nathanaëlle Herbelin's subtle paintings
Nathanaëlle Herbelin is a figurative painter born in 1989, who lives and works between Paris and Tel Aviv. She was born and raised in...
116 views
The powerful, evoking art of Jannis Kounellis
Born in 1936 in Piraeus, 8 kilometers away from Athens’ city center, and deceased in 2017 in Rome, Jannis Kounellis is a prominent...
51 views
Pat Steir: an important contemporary artist who deserves even more praise
Born in 1938 in New Jersey, Pat Steir is an American artist who started off as a graphic designer and illustrator before turning to...
61 views
Let's take a moment to talk about the price-guarantee mechanisms at auctions
After the huge disappointment of the October sales in Hong Kong, which confirmed the current crisis of supply and demand that we have...
66 views
New York Sales: definite signs of improvement on the art market, but at what price?
The New York fall auctions just went by. They were nervously anticipated by most market players, as the auctions that would once and for...
82 views
Eastern & European fall auctions: the art market slowdown continues, without deepening
The recent auction sales of September and October 2023 just went by in Hong-Kong, London, and Paris. As expected, they all indicate the...
28 views
What the first half of 2023 tells us about the state of the current art market
The first half of 2023 has gone by, and we now have a clearer understanding of the factors at play behind the havoc that was witnessed...
198 views
The deep sincerity of Tracey Emin’s work
In the world of contemporary art, few artists have achieved the level of vulnerability and emotional intensity displayed by Tracey Emin....
99 views
Daniel Richter: a master of contemporary art in the making
Daniel Richter started his life as a painter fairly late, as he took up studying painting at the age of thirty at the Hamburg Academy of...
128 views
Aks Misyuta: an atypical artist evolving at a fast pace
Born in 1984 in Bryansk, Aks Misyuta is a contemporary Russian painter and sculptor known for her biomorphic shapes and her stark, almost...
137 views
George Rouy: a young visionary in his own right?
At only 28 years old, George Rouy has attained an impressive level of artistic maturity. The young British painter already has a rich and...
136 views
November sales: the slowdown of the art market is here
The last big auction season of the year has come to an end: the 2022 November sales are over, and the art market can finally reflect upon...
128 views
« Long live Paris! »: the comeback of the city of light on the Contemporary Art scene
After several decades where Paris was somewhat overshadowed by its immediate British neighbour on the contemporary art market–with France...
97 views
Lynne Drexler, the textbook case of an artist pushed by the art market
In a stellar display of what only the art market can produce, the prices for artworks by Lynne Drexler skyrocketed in the last few months...
79 views
Past recessions and the art market: how to move forward for collectors
The most recent auctions in late June and early July display an important dip both in sales and prices, after the sales of May had...
148 views
Three brilliant female painters who play with the ambiguity between characters and objects
Ulala Imai, Dominique Fung and Emily Ludwig Shaffer : in each of these three young figurative painter’s works, strange characters burst...
241 views
The art market reached a new unexpected high during New York May sales
Despite a troubled international context—both economically and geopolitically—this year’s New York Spring sales were a huge success for...
903 views
bottom of page